ADVISORY/University of Miami School of Law Hosts Fifth Annual Conference on Tax Considerations in Mergers & Acquisitions.

Business Editors/Legal & Education Writers

ADVISORY...for Wed. - Fri. (March 6-8)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

The University of Miami School of Law and its Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions will sponsor the Fifth Annual Institute on Tax Considerations in Mergers & Acquisitions on March 6-8, 2002, at the Eden Roc Renaissance Resort & Spa in Miami Beach.

The annual conference draws tax specialists to participate in timely discussions of new developments and trends affecting the tax treatment of various types of merger and acquisition transactions, including taxable acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, acquisitions involving firms filing consolidated returns, special tax issues arising in the negotiation of a merger or other acquisition agreement, state tax planning for acquisitions, and the tax consequences arising in cross border acquisitions.

A session will also focus on recent developments with corporate tax shelters, including an analysis of court decisions dealing with these transactions, such as the decision in December by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Compaq case, which allowed Compaq to claim foreign tax credits on securities transactions that the IRC challenged.

The speakers include:

-- Mark J. Silverman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP;

-- Eric Solomon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Regulatory Affairs, U.S.

Department of the Treasury;

-- Glenn R. Carrington, Managing Partner, Office of Federal Tax Services,
Andersen;

-- George B. Javaras, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago;

-- D. Kevin Dolan, Senior Vice President - Head of Global Tax, Merrill Lynch &
Co.; and

-- Patrick J. Brown, Attorney-Adviser, Office of International Tax Counsel,
Dept. of the Treasury.

The luncheon speaker will be Pamela Olson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury Department.

Co-chairs of the Institute are Michael L. Schler of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City; and Samuel Thompson, University of Miami School of Law Professor and Director of the School's Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Exhibition space is available. To register, contact Florence Parodi, [phone] or [e-mail]. The brochure is at http://images.law.miami.edu/pdf/cle/tax2002.pdf.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

-- Special press passes are available.

-- In addition to the March 6-8 event, the University of Miami 

School of Law will hold its Sixth Annual Institute on Mergers

& Acquisitions: Corporate, Securities & Related Aspects

Thursday-Friday, February 7 & 8, 2002, at the Eden Roc

Renaissance Resort & Spa.